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Noam Chomsky
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Chapter 4 from Noam Chomsky, The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, & Palestine (1983)
Topics: Israel, Palestine, Apartheid
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Mahmood Mamdani
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An excerpt from Mahmood Mamdani's Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, The Cold War, and the Roots of Terror that discusses the American role in the Afghan-Soviet War and its consequences.
Topics: Cold War, War on Terror, Afghanistan
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Jimmy Carter
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Jimmy Carter's remarks regarding his immigration policy (August 4, 1978) Excerpted from Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1977, Book 2 , p1415-1421
Topics: Immigration, Jimmy Carter
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Jimmy Carter
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Jimmy Carter's remarks regarding the Hyde Amendment which banned the use of federal moneys for performing abortions. (July 12, 1978) Excerpted from Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1977, Book 2 , p1236-1237
Topics: Jimmy Carter, Abortion, Hyde Amendment
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Jimmy Carter
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Jimmy Carter's remarks to the public regarding his refusal to abide by the Paris Accords and pay reparations to Vietnam. (March 24, 1977) Excerpted from Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1977, Book 1 , p501-502
Topics: Vietnam War, Reparations, Paris Peace Accords, Jimmy Carter, Imperialism
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Jimmy Carter
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Jimmy Carter's remarks to the public after he invoked the Taft-Hartley Act to break the 1977 Coal Strike. (March 6, 1978) Excerpted from Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1978, Book 1 , p469-471
Topics: Labor History, Jimmy Carter, Coal Strike, Taft Hartley Act
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Michael Parenti
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Commentary from Michael Parenti on individualism and the rise of New Age thinking in the 1970s and 80s. From: Michael Parenti, The Culture Struggle (2005)
Topics: Michael Parenti, New Age, Individualism
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Michael Parenti's discussion of the circumstances around the death of UAW leader Walter Reuther. From: Michael Parenti, Dirty Truths (1996)
Topics: Walter Reuther, UAW, Michael Parenti
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An example of polling during the Vietnam War that consistently showed a correlation between higher levels of education and higher levels of support for the war. New York Times , "Gallup Finds Support Gaining for Quick Troop Withdrawal," 2/15/1970
Topics: Vietnam War, Antiwar, Antiwar Movement
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Douglas Fisher
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A discussion of the inflationary effects of New World gold and silver on the economies of Europe Douglas Fisher, “The Price Revolution: A Monetary Interpretation,” in The Journal of Economic History , Vol. 49 No. 4 (December 1989)
Topics: Inflation, Gold, Silver, New World
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Jan 20, 2023
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Kim Phillips-Fein
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Historian Kim Phillips-Fein discusses some of the contested politics of the 1975 New York City debt crisis. Kim Phillips-Fein, "The Politics of Austerity: The Moral Economy in 1970s New York" in Neoliberal Cities: The Remaking of Postwar Urban America, (New York: New York University Press, 2020)
Topics: New York City, New York City debt crisis, 1970s, Neoliberalism
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Manning Marable
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History of the black community in America during the Carter and early Reagan presidencies. Manning Marable, “Ch 7 – Reaction: The Demise of the Second Reconstruction, 1976-1982” in Race, Reform and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction in Black America, 1945-1982 (1984)
Topics: Civil Rights, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan
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Article discussing Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford's positions against housing integration in the 1976 campaign. New York Times , "Candidates Express No Difference on Issue of Housing Segregation," 4/24/1976
Topics: Housing, Segregation, Civil Rights, Jimmy Carter, 1970s
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A report written for the Trilateral Commission on the problems of "excess democracy" in Western countries. The Trilateral Commission was a think-tank formed in 1973 in the wake of the Powell Memo (1971). The Commission was especially influential with the Carter Administration.
Topics: 1970s, US History, Trilateral Commission
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William Tucker
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Discusses the firestorm over the work of Arthur Jensen, the pre-eminent racist "scientist" of the 1960/70s. William Tucker, “Chapter 5 – ‘Unaided by Eugenic Foresight’: The Controversy Over Jensenism” in The Science and Politics of Racial Research (1996)
Topics: Racism, Race Science
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Timothy Weaver
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Article discussing the history of the term "urban crisis" Timothy Weaver, “Urban Crisis: The Genealogy of a Concept” in Urban Studies , Vol 54 No 9 (2017)
Topics: Urban History, Urban Crisis
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Jan 12, 2023
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Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward
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Article from 1968 discussing the political uses of the "urban crisis" Richard Cloward & Frances Fox Piven, “The Urban Crisis and the Consolidation of National Power” in Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science , Vol 29 No 1 (1968)
Topics: Urban Crisis, 1960s, Urban History
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Center for Research on Criminal Justice
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Report discussing the changing role of policing in the early 1970s, including the rise of militarized units such as SWAT. Center for Research on Criminal Justice, The Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove: An Analysis of the US Police (1975)
Topics: Policing, Police Militarization, SWAT, 1970s
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Time
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Article discussing the labor turmoil of 1969/70 Time , "Labor Turmoil and New Threats," 4/6/1970
Topics: Labor History, 1970s
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Jan 12, 2023
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Christian Parenti
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Discusses the rollback of worker's rights that was undertaken in the 1970s and 1980s. Christian Parenti, Ch 2: From Crisis to Rollback in Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (1999)
Topics: 1970s, Neoliberalism, Rollback, Policing
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Robert Heinl
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Article written in the Armed Forces Journal that discusses the collapse of the US military in Vietnam. Robert Heinl, “The Collapse of the Armed Forces,” in Armed Forces Journal , 6/7/1971
Topics: Vietnam War, Soldier Rebellion
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Kristian Williams
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Chapter 4 from Kristian Williams' Our Enemies in Blue: Police & Power in America which looks at the relationship between the police and racist organizations in the United States.
Topics: Policing, Racism, Racist Violence, Civil Rights, Gary Rowe
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William Sullivan
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Includes a report filed by William Sullivan for the FBI in 1963 linking the CPUSA and the Civil Rights Movement. Also included are a series of memos from Sullivan pressing his case.
Topics: COINTELPRO, Civil Rights Movement, Police, CPUSA, Communist Party USA
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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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A discussion of the reservation system in the United States. Excerpted from: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous People's History of the United States (2014)
Topics: American Indian, Native American, Reservations, Reservation System
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Ward Churchill
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Article discusses the effects of Cold War militarism on Indian land in the United States -- particularly with regard to the mining of nuclear material and storage of nuclear waste. From: Ward Churchill, A Little Mater of Genocide (2001)
Topics: Native Americans, American Indian, Cold War
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Kasey Keeler
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Article discussing post-war housing for Native Americans in the United States. Kasey Keeler, “Putting People Where They Belong: American Indian Housing Policy in the Mid-Twentieth Century” in Native American and Indigenous Studies , Vol 3 No 2 (2016)
Topics: Native American, American Indian, Postwar Housing, Housing
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Article from the New York Times discussing how the Soviet Union obtained a 150-year old treaty between the United States and the Seneca Indians after city workers threw it in the trash. (NYT, 1/22/1955)
Topics: American Indian, Colonialism, Cold War
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Peter Dale Scott
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This was the first article in the US to try and assess the US role in the 1965 Indonesian military coup. Peter Dale Scott, “The United States and the Overthrow of Sukarno, 1965-1967,” in Pacific Affairs , Vol 58 No 2 (Summer 1985)
Topics: Indonesia, Cold War, Coup, Suharto, CIA
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Dec 10, 2022
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Saskia Wieringa
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This article discusses the role of sexism and sexual panic in the mass killings in Indonesia after the 1965 military coup. Sa skia Wieringa, “Sexual Slander and the 1965/66 Mass Killings in Indonesia” in Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol 41 No 4 (November 2011)
Topics: Sexism, Indonesia, Cold War, Genocide
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Dec 10, 2022
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Saskia Wieringa
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This article discusses the role of sexism and sexual panic in the mass killings in Indonesia after the 1965 military coup. Saskia Wieringa, “The Birth of the New Order State in Indonesia: Sexual Politics and Nationalism,” in Journal of Women’s History , Vol 15 No 1 (Spring 2003)
Topics: Sexism, Indonesia, Cold War, Genocide
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Dec 10, 2022
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The Pentagon Papers. Leaked by Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers contain the official internal history of the US war against Vietnam. They include a huge number of classified NSC, State Department, and DOD memos regarding the war from its earliest days.
Topics: Vietnam War, Cold War, The Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg
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New York Times
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An editorial in the New York Times celebrating the coup in Indonesia.
Topics: Indonesia, Cold War, US Foreign Policy, genocide
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Dec 10, 2022
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Noam Chomsky
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Chapter 5 from Noam Chomsky's Year 501, The Conquest Continues (1993). This chapter discusses the American role in the 1965 military coup in Indonesia and the media response.
Topics: Indonesia, Cold War, Foreign Policy
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Reporting from the San Antonio Express News on Uvalde in the aftermath of the shooting. Reporting is from Sept 5, 2022 to Oct. 17, 2022.
Topics: Uvalde, School Shooting, Mass Shooting, Police, Police Reform
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A collection of articles discussing gentrification in Minneapolis
Topic: Gentrification
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Population trends from select midwestern cities
Topic: Suburbanization
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Population trends from a selection of six midwestern cities
Topics: Gentrification, suburbanization
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Jenny Brown
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An excerpt from Jenny Brown's Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now (Verso, 2019) that discusses the rise of the anti-abortion movement after Roe as representing a transition of elite concerns from overpopulation to concern over low birth rates domestically. An important contribution to the abortion debate.
Topic: Abortion
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RC Lewontin
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A refutation of the work of E.O. Wilson RC Lewontin, “Sociobiology: Another Biological Determinism” in International Journal of Health Services , Vol. 10 No. 3 (1980)
Topic: Sociobiology
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Kristen Ghodsee
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Chapter 10 from Kristen Ghodsee's Red Hangover: Legacies of 20th Century Communism
Topics: Anticommunism, Eastern Europe
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Davies & Smelser
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From Davies & Smelser, The Myth of the Eastern Front
Topics: Cold War, Fascism
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Douglas Tottle
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From Douglas Tottle's, Fraud, Famine and Fascism: The Ukrainian Genocide Myth from Hitler to Harvard (1986)
Topics: Cold War, fascism
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Mar 11, 2022
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Michael Parenti
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From Michael Parenti's Make Believe Media: The Politics of Entertainment (1990)
Topics: Cold War, Propaganda, Michael Parenti
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Tom Englehardt
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Tom Englehardt's 1971 essay on the politics of the Cowboys & Indians genre
Topics: Cold War, Film Criticism
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Kim Phillips Fein
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From Kim Phillips Fein's Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Deal (2010)
Topics: Cold War, Propaganda
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Alex Carey
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From Alex Carey's Taking the Risk Out of Democracy (1996)
Topics: Cold War, Propaganda
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Elaine Tyler May
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From Elaine Tyler May's Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War (1988)
Topic: Cold War
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Mar 5, 2022
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Gabriel Kolko
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An excerpt from Gabriel Kolko's The Politics of War: The World and United States Foreign Policy, 1943-1945 (1968) that discusses the reasons why the Anglo-American invasion of Europe was delayed for so long.
Topics: WWII history, Gabriel Kolko
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Gabriel Kolko
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A discussion of US efforts to reshape the world economic order at the tail-end of World War II From Gabriel Kolko's The Politics of War: The World and US Foreign Policy, 1943-4945
Topic: Bretton Woods
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Feb 18, 2022
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Matias Vernango
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A discussion of the rise of dollar hegemony in the 1970s and the impact that it has had on the world economic system. From Review of Political Economy , vol 22 no 4 (2021)
Topics: Bretton Woods, dollar hegemony
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Feb 5, 2022
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R Palme Dutt
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Full text of 1935 edition of R Palme Dutt's Fascism and Social Revolution
Topics: Fascism, R Palme Dutt
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R Palme Dutt
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From Rajani Palme Dutt's 1934 book Fascism and Social Revolution
Topics: Fascism, R Palme Dutt
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James Whitman
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Discusses the influence fascist ideas among New Dealers
Topics: US History, Great Depression, Fascism
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John Diggins
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A discussion of the liberal fascination with Mussolini during the 1930s
Topics: US History, Great Depression, Fascism
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From the New York Times, 8/12/1934. Compares the recovery programs of FDR, Hitler, and Mussolini.
Topics: US History, Great Depression, Fascism
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From the New York Times, covering the fight against evictions
Topics: Great Depression, Rent Strike, Evictions
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From the New York Times, 2/2/1932, covers the fight against evictions
Topics: US History, Rent Strike, Evictions
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Jan 19, 2022
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Boyer & Morais
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From Labor's Untold Story on the class war in the 1930s
Topics: US History, Labor History
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Boyer & Morais
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From Labor's Untold Story discussing the class war in the 1920s
Topics: US History, Labor History
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Alfred McCoy
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From Alfred McCoy's Policing America's Empire on the links between the US occupation of the Philippines and America's domestic war against political radicals
Topic: anticommunism
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Kevin Phillips
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From Kevin Phillips' Wealth and Democracy on the consolidation of wealth in the US after WWI
Topics: Capitalism, WWI
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Alex Carey
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From Alex Carey's Taking the Risk Out of Democracy discussing the creation of the propaganda state during WWI
Topics: US History, Propaganda
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Jan 8, 2022
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Edwin Black
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From the Appendix of Edwin Black's War Against the Weak describing Connecticut's plan to wipe out the "lower tenth" of their population in the late 1930s.
Topic: Eugenics
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Document presented at the Nuremberg Trials that showed the influence that American eugenics had on the Nazi movement.
Topic: Eugenics
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Claude Pierce
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Claude Pierce, “Combating Typhus Fever on the Mexican Border” in Public Health Reports (1896-1970) , Vol. 32 No. 12 (March 23, 1917)
Topics: El Paso, Bath Riots, US-Mexico Border
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Alexandra Minna Stern
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Alexandra Minna Stern, “Buildings, Boundaries, and Blood: Medicalization and Nation Building on the US-Mexico Border, 1910-1930,” in Hispanic American Historical Review , Vol 79 No. 1 (Feb 1999). Discusses the El Paso Bath Riots of 1917.
Topics: El Paso, Bath Riots, US-Mexico Border
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James Loewen
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From James Loewen's Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism (2005)
Topics: US History, Racism, Sundown Town
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Philip Foner, Richard Boyer, Herbert Morais
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These short histories are taken from: 1. Philip Foner, History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Vol 1: From Colonial Times to the Founding of the American Federation of Labor (New York: International Publishers, 1972), p464-474. 2. Richard Boyer & Herbert Morais, Labor’s Untold Story (Pittsburgh: United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, 2000), p38-64.
Topics: Labor History, 1877 Railroad Strike, Great Railroad Strike
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Article from the New York Times that exemplifies how sundown towns were created.
Topics: Sundown Town, Racism
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Richard Boyer and Herbert Morais
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From Richard Boyer & Herbert Morais' Labor's Untold Story, discussing the Great Railroad Strike of 1877.
Topic: Labor History
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Philip Foner
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From Philip Foner's History of the Labor Movement in the United States , Vol. 1, discussing the Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Topic: Labor History
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From Philip Foner's History of the Labor Movement in the United States , Vol 2 which discusses the Colorado miners' strike that led to the Ludlow Massacre
Topics: Ludlow Massacre, Labor History
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Philip Foner
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From Philip Foner's Organized Labor & the Black Worker discussing the early AFL's policy toward black workers
Topic: Labor History
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WEB Du Bois
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From WEB Du Bois' Black Reconstruction , this chapter discusses the reactionary effort to destroy Reconstruction.
Topics: Reconstruction, WEB Du Bois
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Richard White
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"Panic" is from Richard White's The Republic for Which it Stands and discusses the lead-up and aftermath of the Panic of 1873
Topics: US History, the Gilded Age
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Dec 17, 2021
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Leon Litwack
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"Hellhounds" from Leon Litwack's Trouble in Mind discusses lynching in Jim Crow America
Topics: Jim Crow, Racism, Lynching
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Nov 20, 2021
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R Palme Dutt
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Written in 1934, Dutt's book remains one of the best analysis of fascism in Europe
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Topics: Fascism, R Palme Dutt, Rajani Palme Dutt
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Nov 19, 2021
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Jeffrey Isaac
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An article debating the legacy of progressivism and liberalism during the 1996 presidential election cycle. Jeffrey Isaac, et al. "The Poverty of Progressivism" & "Responses" in Dissent Magazine (Fall 1996)
Topics: Progressive Era, Liberalism
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Oct 28, 2021
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WEB Du Bois
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Chapter 8 of WEB Du Bois' Black Reconstruction serves as a political biography of Andrew Johnson
Topics: WEB Du Bois, Andrew Johnson, Reconstruction
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Oct 22, 2021
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WEB Du Bois
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Chapter 4 of WEB Du Bois' seminal 1935 work, Black Reconstruction. This chapter covers what Du Bois terms "the general strike" or mass resistance to slavery from slaves in the South during the Civil War.
Topics: WEB Du Bois, Abolition, Abolitionist Movement, Civil War, The General Strike
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Oct 22, 2021
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Philip Foner
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Philip Foner's "From Slavery to Freedom," the first chapter in his book Organized Labor & the Black Worker (1981). Covers the role of the labor movement and the struggle against slavery in early America.
Topics: Abolition, Abolitionist Movement, Labor History
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Oct 22, 2021
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William Lloyd Garrison
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A collection of articles from William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper The Liberator showing the position of the paper during the Mexican War.
Topics: Mexican War, Abolition, Abolitionist
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From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World by Eugene Genovese A discussion of slave revolts in colonial America that has become difficult to find.
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Topics: Slavery, Slave Revolts, Abolition
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Excerpts from contemporary reactions to John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
Topics: John Brown, Abolition, Abolitionist Movement
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Lerone Bennett Jr
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Lerone Bennett Jr, "John Brown: God's Angry Man" in Ebony , December 1964
Topics: Lerone Bennett Jr, John Brown, Abolition
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Oct 15, 2021
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Justin Smith
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Written in 1919, this was the first thorough official history of the Mexican War. Replete with the imperial apologia and the casual racism of its day, the two volume series is still an important look into how the US identifies itself as an empire.
Topics: Mexican War, The War With Mexico, Justin Smith, US History
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New York Herald
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An 1845 article from the New York Herald on the annexation of Texas that displays the imperialist fervor for the coming war with Mexico.
Topics: Texas, imperialism, Annexation, Mexican War
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Oct 7, 2021
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Oct 7, 2021
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Michael Parenti
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Parenti gives a Marxist analysis of the motives and interests behind writing the US Constitution. This is chapter 2 in his book Democracy for the Few .
Topics: Parenti, Constitution, US History, American History, Political Science
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Sep 25, 2021
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Ward Churchill
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Ward Churchill essay from his 2001 book A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present . Article gives a survey of the case that American settler-colonialism constituted a genocide of the indigenous population.
Topics: Native American, Genocide, Settler Colonialism, Imperialism, US History, Ward Churchill
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Sep 14, 2021
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British Merchant
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An abridged version of the influential 1745 pamphlet in which a London merchant argues for an expansion of the slave trade to the Americas on the part of Britain. It is interesting in that it gives an explicitly economic argument for the reinvesting in the slave system.
Topics: Slavery, Capitalism
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Sep 14, 2021
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Lerone Bennett Jr
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An expanded version of the essay of the same name that appeared in the August 1970 issue of Ebony. This expanded version appeared in the 1975 collection, The Shaping of Black America .
Topics: Slavery, Racism, American History, US History, Lerone Bennett Jr
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Lerone Bennett Jr
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The Road Not Taken is an excellent essay on the effect of slavery on American history by Lerone Bennett Jr. It was featured in the August 1970 issue of Ebony magazine.
Topics: Slavery, Racism, American History, US History, Lerone Bennett Jr
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Mimi Swartz
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Feature article on the failure to desegregate public housing in Vidor, TX in 1993. Texas Monthly . Dec93, Vol. 21 Issue 12, p131. 12p.
Topics: housing segregation, sundown town, racism, housing racism, Vidor
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1919 Congressional hearings on the abuses and excesses of the Texas Rangers along the US-Mexico border. Proceedings Of The Joint Committee Of The Senate And The House In Investigating The Texas Rangers, 1919
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NYT article from 1985 "The House of Representatives, which prides itself on being 'the people's House,' has been turning into a rich man's club."
Topics: Politics, neoliberalism
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Brian Platt
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This is a history of the creation and expansion of School Resource Officer (SRO) programs in America. Original can be found here . Original audio version can be found here .
Topics: SRO, School Resource Officer, police in schools, school to prison pipeline, police reform, police...
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Julian Samora, Joe Bernal, Albert Peña
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Julian Samora, Joe Bernal, Albert Pe ña, Gunpowder Justice: A Reassessment of the Texas Rangers (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979). A Chicano retelling of the history of the Texas Rangers.
Topics: Texas Rangers, Texas History, ACAB
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William Chase
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William Chase, “El Extraño Caso de Diego Rivera y el Departmento de Estado” ("The Strange Case of Diego Rivera and the U.S. State Department"), Zona Abierta (Suplemento de Economica, Politica y Sociedad del Financiero) II, 61 (Noviembre 1993).
Topics: Diego Rivera, Trotsky, Soviet History, Mexican History, Dies Committee
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William Chase
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William Chase, “Trotskii v Mekcike. K istorii ero neglasnykh kontaktov s pravitel'stvom SShA (1937-1940)” ("Trotsky in Mexico: Toward a History of His Informal Contacts with the U.S. Government, 1937-1940"), Otechestvennaia istoriia, 4 (July/August 1995).
Topics: Trotsky, Soviet History, Mexican History, Dies Committee, William Chase, Soviet History, William...
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